Re: Rewriting The Science

2006-03-20 Thread Doug Pensinger 
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:38:25 -, Andrew Crystall 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



On 19 Mar 2006 at 22:33, Doug Pensinger wrote:


Rewriting The Science
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml
or
http://tinyurl.com/qoo59


REwriting?


Yes, it wasn't clear from the clips I quoted, but as the article points 
out, the Bush administration is censoring scientific reports.


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Re: Rewriting The Science

2006-03-20 Thread Andrew Crystall 
On 19 Mar 2006 at 22:33, Doug Pensinger wrote:

> Rewriting The Science
> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/qoo59

REwriting?

The evidence has been clear for quite some time that this was the 
ongoing trend, especially in light of the data gathered over America 
in the wake of the 9/11 aircraft shutdown which showed that 
particulate emissions were acting as a force hiding the initial surge 
of temperatures rises.

But air particulates themselves have their own drawbacks, in terms of 
lung disease and so on. And so Europe, at least, has achieved a fall 
in the past 18 months - and has seen a small drop but significant in 
average temperatures as a result.

The data's been quite clear for some time. And there is only one 
power source which can possibly take up the majority of the slack if 
we move away from burning fossil fuels. One with a long lead time, 
which we need to start acting on now: nuclear energy.

AndrewC
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Rewriting The Science

2006-03-19 Thread Doug Pensinger 

Rewriting The Science
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/17/60minutes/main1415985.shtml
or
http://tinyurl.com/qoo59

"What James Hansen believes is that global warming is accelerating. He 
points to the melting arctic and to Antarctica, where new data show 
massive losses of ice to the sea.


Is it fair to say at this point that humans control the climate? Is that 
possible?


"There's no doubt about that, says Hansen. "The natural changes, the speed 
of the natural changes is now dwarfed by the changes that humans are 
making to the atmosphere and to the surface."


Those human changes, he says, are driven by burning fossil fuels that pump 
out greenhouse gases like CO2, carbon dioxide. Hansen says his research 
shows that man has just 10 years to reduce greenhouse gases before global 
warming reaches what he calls a tipping point and becomes unstoppable. He 
says the White House is blocking that message.


"In my more than three decades in the government I've never witnessed such 
restrictions on the ability of scientists to communicate with the public," 
says Hansen.


and

"Annoyed by the ambiguity, Hansen went public a year and a half ago, 
saying this about the Bush administration in a talk at the University of 
Iowa: "I find a willingness to listen only to those portions of scientific 
results that fit predetermined inflexible positions. This, I believe, is a 
recipe for environmental disaster."


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As if loyalty was black and white
You hear people say it all the time-
"My country wrong or right"
I want to know what that's got to do
With what it takes to find out what's true
With everyone from the President on down
Trying to keep it from you

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